fateful

英 ['fe?tf?l; -f(?)l] 美['fetfl]
  • adj. 重大的；決定性的；宿命的

英英釋意

1. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance;
"that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev
"the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
2. of ominous significance
3. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin;
"the stock market crashed on Black Friday"
"a calamitous defeat"
"the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"
"such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin
"it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur
"a fateful error"
4. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined;
"a fatal series of events"